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Canada produces lots of vaccines -- we just happen to not produce any COVID-19 vaccines.

• arcticbull 6y ago
  Connought Labs, once a Crown Corporation, was sold to Sanofi who continues to operate the campus in Toronto, and GSK has a campus in Ste Foy [1]. Neither Sanofi nor GSK were able to develop a COVID vaccine in time and their facilities could not be re-tooled to produce the vaccines that we do have. There is not sufficient capacity to take on this challenge at this time, as to your point, those facilities are occupied producing other necessary drugs and vaccines. Canada was once a dominant player in the vaccine game, but those days are long since passed, especially after the privatization of Connought under Mulroney. In my opinion this would be a good opportunity to revisit a Crown Corporation devoted to vaccine development, as it does appear the public sector is not well set up to cater to this national security need. We are just 38M people after all. Maybe under the NRC? [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/domestic-vaccine-manufacturing-canada-1.6004427 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/domestic-vaccine-manufactur...